The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-10

Sonth. jeremiads of war times that have
nevor been svllabled.
Doside that domestic perturbation and
home sickness Of those dayB put the sweet
OF to-day. The only camp
fiee you now ever sit q b the one kindled
in stove or furnace or hearth. Instead OF
a half-ration Of salt pork, . repast luxu-
RANT because partaken Of by loving famk
" circle and in secret confidence. 0,
noW Isse who thoss letters were for, the
letters you, the young soldier, took %
long in your tent to write, and that
you were so particular TO put
in the mail without any one seeing you
lest you be leased BY your comrades. God
spared you to get back, and though the
old people have gone you have home Of
your own construction, and you often con-
strast those awful absences and filial and
brotherly and lovely heartbreaks with
your present residence, which is the dear
est place you will find this side Of Heaven.
The place where your children were born
is the place where you want to die. To
write the figures of 1852 I set up four
crystals-crystals Of tears. To write the
figures of 1887 stand up four members
of your household-fgures Of rosy cheeks
and haxen hair, il can get them to stand
still long enough. r rs
Contrast also the religious opportunities
of twenty years ago with now. Often on
on the march from Sunday morn till
night, or commanded by officers who con-
sidered the names of God and Christ Of
no use except to swear by. Sometimes
the drumhead the pulpit, and you stand
ing in heat or cold, all the surroundings
of military life having tendency to make
you reckless. No privacy for prayer or
Bible reading. No sound Of church bells.
Sabbath spent far away from the place
where you were brought up. Now the
choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full Of God,
and Christ, and Heaven, and doxol-
ogy. Three mountains lifting them
selves into the holy light-Mouht
Sinai laundering its law, Mount Calvary
pleading its sacrifice, Mount Pisgah dis
playing the promised land.
Contrast Of National condition: 1882,
spending money by the millions in devas :
tation of property and life; 1887, the
finances so reconstructed that all the
stock gamblers of Wall street combined
can not make National panic; 1857. sur
geons setting broken bones. and ampu-
tating gangrened limbs, and studyin
gunshot fractures, and inventing easy
ambulances for the wounded and dying:
1857, surgeons giving their attention to
those in casualty Of agriculture, Of com-
merce or mechanic al life, the rushing of
the ambulance through our streets not
suggesting battle, but quick re-
lief of some one fallen in
peaceful industries; 1862. 35,-
100000 inhabitants in this land; 1887, s., =.
OO,0OO; 1862, wheat about SO, 100000 bush
els; 1857, the wheat will be about 5oo.-
100000 bushels; 1862, Pacific coast five
weeks from the Atlantic; 1887, for three
reasons-Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
Northern Pacific-only seven days across.
Look at the long line Of churches, univer-
stiles, asylums and houses with which
during the last few years this land ha 8
been decorated.
Living soldiers of the North and South,
take a new and special ordination at this
season of the year, to garland the sepul-
cheres Of your fallen comrades. Nothing
is too good for their memories. Turn all
the private tombs and the National ceme-
teries into gardens. Ye dead Of Malvern
Hill, and Cold Harbor, and Murfreesboro,
and Manassas junction, and Cumberland
Gap, and field hospital, receive these
floral offerings Of the living soldiers.
''But they shall come again, all the
dead troops. We sometimes talk about
earthly m ilitary reviews, such as took
place in Paris in the time of Marshal Ney,
in London in the time Of Wellington, and
IN our own land, but what tame things
compared with the final review, when all
the armies Of the ages shall pass for d.
vine and angelic inspection. st. John
says the armies Of Heaven ride on white
horses, and don't know but many of tho
old cavalry horses Of earthly battle, that
were wound ed and worn out in service,
may have resurrection. 1t would be only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be resurrected for the grand re-
view of the Judgment Day. n would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and
I should be very glad TO
see them among the white
the trumpet blast, the reveille of the last
judgment. They come up-all the armies
of all lands and all centuries, on which
even side they fought whether for free
dom or despotism, for the right or the
WToux. lucy COulct lucy CUuuC.
ard Cyrus, and Sennacherib, and Joshua,
and David, leading forth the armies OF
Scrip.ural times; Hannibal and Hamilcar
leading forth the Carthagenians; Victor
Emanuel and Garibaldi leading on the
armies Of the Italians; Tamerlane and
Ghengis Kahn followed by the armies OF
Asia; Gustavus Adolphus, and Ptolemy
Philopater, and Xerxes, and Al.
h
ington, leading battalion after bat
talon. The dead American armies Of
lid and 1872 and LOO, 900 Of Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war-they
come up; they pass on in review. The g.
OoO, 600 Germans fallen in the Thirty Years
war; the Ii. 900, 600 fallen in the war un.
der Sosostris; the 5000 600 fallen in the
wars of Justinian: the q, 600, 600 fallen in
Jewish wars; the $1,000, 600 fallen in the
wars with Saracens and Turks; the IS,
000, OO0, 900 estimated to have fallen in bat
tle-enough, according to one statistician.
if they stood four abreast, to reach clear
around the earth AZ times.
But we shall have time to see them pass
in review before the throne Of Judgment,
the cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the
spearmen, the infantry. the sharpshooters,
the gunners, the sappers, tho miners, the
archers, the skirmishers, men OF all
colors, Of all epaulets, Of all weaponry,
Of all countries. Let the earth be es-
pecially balanced to bear their tread.
Forward! Forward Let the orchestra
OF the Heavenly galleries play the grand
march, joined by all the fifers, drummers
and military bands that ever sounded
x,,o Anfoof of Rulnn popnhinn
Marathon or Tharuopy l@ Bunker Hill
or Yorktown, Solferino or Balaklava,
Sedan or Gettysburg, from the time
when Joshua halted astronomy
above Gibbon and Ajalon till the last
man surrendered to Garnet Wolsely at
Tel-elKebir. Nations, companies, bat
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